So while putting together a FreeBSD port for apr and apr-util, for use with my port of Subversion, I ran into a slight problem with the apr-config and apu-config scripts.
The scripts use a `cd $foo && pwd` construct to resolve relative paths when figuring out if they're being called from an installed location or within their build location. This falls apart on systems where the installed location is in a directory that is actually a symlink off to someplace else (ie, /usr/local is really a symlink to /bigdisk or something like that). The fix (which was suggested by Greg Stein), is simple. Just resolve the $bindir path in the same way before doing the comparison. Here are patches to both apr-config and apu-config that should correct the problem. -garrett Index: apr-config.in =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/apr/apr-config.in,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 apr-config.in --- apr-config.in 13 Mar 2002 20:39:08 -0000 1.13 +++ apr-config.in 14 Mar 2002 00:44:38 -0000 @@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ thisdir="`dirname $0`" thisdir="`cd $thisdir && pwd`" -if test "$bindir" = "$thisdir"; then +tmpbindir="`cd $bindir && pwd`" +if test "$tmpbindir" = "$thisdir"; then location=installed elif test "$APR_SOURCE_DIR" = "$thisdir"; then location=source Index: apu-config.in =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/apr-util/apu-config.in,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.7 apu-config.in --- apu-config.in 13 Mar 2002 20:40:46 -0000 1.7 +++ apu-config.in 14 Mar 2002 00:45:06 -0000 @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ thisdir="`dirname $0`" thisdir="`cd $thisdir && pwd`" -if test "$bindir" = "$thisdir"; then +tmpbindir="`cd $bindir && pwd`" +if test "$tmpbindir" = "$thisdir"; then location=installed elif test "$APR_SOURCE_DIR" = "$thisdir"; then location=source -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from [EMAIL PROTECTED] doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things.
